That kid riding the wheelie in the beginning set the tone for the rest of my life. Nearly makes me weep the feelings this movie invokes. Wow. We had a great childhood
I graduated high school in 1971. Raced motocross in southern California. Saddleback Park was in my backyard. Malcolm Smith has always been my hero. I still own MS Racing Gear.
I went to Saddleback many times & remember all these guys. I agree Smith was a MC hero. Where we lived, a riding area called Elephant Hill was the local practice area. I saw & talked to Steve McQueen, who would ride there with his moto buddy Jim West. West later died after a crash at Saddleback. I was only about 12 with either a Maverick mini or a total POS Yamaha 125, but McQueen was intetested & just a regular guy. He talked to all of us kids. They were both crazy gòd on their Huskies.
I was in High School in 1971, racing novice class on a rebuilt Maico square barrel. No other movie in my lifetime had(or has had)a more significant influence on my development/career/life. Seeing this again has refreshed my mind about everything that gave me the impetus for riding/racing/loving motorcycles for the last 45 years. Thank you; Bruce Brown, Steve McQueen, Malcolm, Mert, and all the other featured competitors for a lifetime of heroes on which to reflect.
I was riding my Bultaco 250 Pursang one fine Saturday with my pals in the Canyon riding area of Redlands CA. When Steve McQueen and his pal showed up to ride motorcycles. If I remember correctly they drove up in a 1956 Ford PU.
THIS SPECTACULAR DOCUMENTARY CHANGED MY LIFE AND MY FRIENDS WE RODE SINCE 1967 ! I STILL HAVE THE PASSION EVEN THOUGH I LOST A LEG MARCH 2023 ! YOU CANNOT KILL THE SPIRIT !
Don't ever give up the spirit! I shattered both my legs on 1-20-01 from stabbing the face of another tabletop jump 140 feet away! Then had such a passion for the greatest sport in the universe that I remounted an 07 KTM 250SX 2 stroke and you can ask Ryan Dungey about our race!
I started riding motorcycles in 1969 and saw this movie with my dad, my brother and 2 kids from the neighborhood when we were all just teens. We all rode for years, myself and 1 friend still riding to this day. Sadly my dad passed away a couple years after we saw the movie; but I still remember sitting in that theater next to him every time I watch it. It is one of the best memories I have of my father. A special day in a special time of life.
I watched this in my english class. Teacher gave us slips to excuse us for the next class. We got to see it before it hit theaters. She became my favorite teach after that! She said 1 day wasn't going to cause a catastrophe.
Absolutely, the best music, the best everything, it's been a long slow downhill ever since with our personal freedoms and liberties eroding the whole way. People that weren't around in the 70's just don't get how much we've lost since then, they think that just because they get their flag out every 4th of July and wave it around that it's the same America, it isn't. I'm glad I won't be around too much longer, it really breaks my heart to see what people have given up for a sense of false security.
Damn!!! I last saw that movie over 50 years ago at a place called a drive in theater! That was the mystical days of rotary telephone dials! The days of yore!
Yes, such fond memories of movies such as Mad Dogs & Englishmen (Joe Cocker on tour movie), Billy Jack, Jeremiah Johnson, Trinity (Terence Hill & Bud Spencer), any movie with Robert Redford, Paul Newman, the list goes on. Somehow 'Koolmints' stuck in my mind just as much as the drive-ins did. Happy years they were.
@@MADDOG100ful Yep, before the 1986 production rule, (that about tripled the cost of a bike in 5 short years), any kid with a part time job could afford a brand new dirt bike, and we were in just about every rural USA field, with that movie beginning Yamaha GT Mini-enduro 60 as the trail maker that dwarfed the highway commission.
We rode many of these places back then; Saddleback, Indian Dunes, Gorman, and Elephant Hill, where McQueen & Jim West (RIP) were racing each other. They stopped by our gaggle of 12 year olds & asked about our "bikes" Mine was a Maverick pos, & there were various trail 70's, mini 50's, 90's & possibly a Rupp or some other lawn mower thing. They both showed genuine interest. Both were riding their iconic Huskies. So FAST. So glad I grew up in that era.
These guys back in the day where real men balls of steel absolutely no fear whatsoever no wheelie control or launch control any of that crap just pure skill and talent
bet you'd find more than a few dented gas tanks on those bikes. not from racing spills or anything like that, but from their giant brass balls clanking on the tank all race long! legends, one and all!
And most of all, we did not need rich parents to buy us kids a bike. We bought them, rode them, worked on them, modified them and found future opportunity, actually building the industry, that no kid can think of today.
@@stevesmith756agreed! Completely. People had more skills based learning, jobs, and work ethic…In my opinion. Not 100% of the time, but for the greater part of the aging WW2 generation, and technology advancing quickly as well. I grew up in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Those were good years.
I grew up in a family that had motorcycles. I learned how to ride very young. I also learned how to work on the bike as well as how to work on cars. I’m so glad that I had that influence from my father. I remember thinking that everyone had fathers who taught them the same. Just like a lot of the comments had mentioned, I was eight in seventy one. And I saw this film with my father at the local theater. It had a impact on me. I’m so glad that I found it on UA-cam.
I first watched this movie at an outdoor theater on Ascension island 1983 I had a DT175 at the time and man it sparked a passion. Surfing and dirt bike latter street riding still hit trails and the road now.
Saw this with my brother and his buddies in the movie theater in brunswick GA. I was 9 years old got a new Yamaha 80 wen I was 11. Great time to be a kid!
After starting to watch this I now remember going to see this when it came out! - I never was able to get a bike until the mid 80’s, a tame KX80 but I had some cool trails to ride with my nephew and we had such a great time! Now I work and live in China and when I moved here I bought a GW250 - great street bike with just enough to explore lots of really good mountains and countryside roads. This movie set it all in motion!
I was 12 in 1971…other than riding a friend’s mini bike a couple of times and a scooter in Corfu, I didn’t get a motorcycle license until age 50 and didn’t buy a bike until age 54. 64 now and I ride every day.
@@midway27272727 I thought the same, but I know what he meant. I started riding in 74 in Michigan, but I never knew the movie existed for at least another 20 years. :)
Great movie. I watch the opening to this movie over and over. Had a few of these motorcycles and rode the peddle bikes on a DIY moto track in a vacant lot. Wish for those times. the good ole days .
I remember all those names and faces and can still hear the announcer and the motors roaring by! How strange...50 years later.grew up watching my brothers race proud of them...Brelsford 87, 7, 1
back when this movie came out us lads here in New Zealand went a number of times to see it and laugh we did, we had a number of those early japanese motorcycles. I have this in a box collection which includes Bruce Browns surfing movies. I rode for many years, started in motocross, then enduros and finally trials. I had ridden street bikes back in the 60s, I love speeedway and gave that a shot once. I ended up back on the road riding and touring and my early education taught me how to handle a motorcycle especially on the road where car drivers and some motorcyclists can cause problems. I had a decent big tourer a yamaha Venture which we travelled many miles to rallies> i don,t ride anymore as my reaction time is too slow, never mind seeing these old movies is a time that takes the mind back to those days
I found that when I got my fist street bike after decades of dirt, I did not need good reaction time. I just stay away from all the cars the best I can, and just enjoy the ride. Simple philosophy really. They can't hit me if they are no where near me, and there is no reason for me to push any limits. Good life story you did. :)
The "Modern Motorcycle Era" was just a couple years old and the next 15 years would be to motorcycles as the 15 years from 1955 - 1970 was for cars. Back then I couldn't get enough of this movie and now it all seems so tame except for the flat track... Great memories.
In Dana Point California there is a statue of Bruce Brown in a swimsuit with his movie camera, honoring him for Endless Summer. A quick search has shown me that Bruce's first motorcycle was a Triumph Cub. I'd pitch in if we could build a statue honoring him for On any Sunday. Perhaps Bruce sitting on or standing next to his Triumph Cub
Great movie! Brings back fond memories of riding with Joe Guglielmelli (RIP) and Warren Webb of Walla Walla, WA in the 70's. Joe had no problem keeping up with my TM400 on his Hodaka Super Rat during an MC club desert ride at Wallula junction.
Growing up in the high desert of SoCal, I remember first seeing this movie at a local drive-in, after the movie ended, while everyone was leaving, it was like they were all lining up for a desert race, engines were racing, the dust was flying everywhere lol! It was crazy... good memories!
I did not see it for at least 2 decades after that. But I remember it was said it was a very "inspiring" bike riding movie. I bet a quite a few at that drive in theater were at their local dealership the next week. :)
I was in Junior High, when this film came out, my father just bought me a Yamaha Mini Endro, a expansion chamber, sold the Yamaha, and got a Bultaco Sherpa 175..what a wonderful time..! I still ride..Harley Street Glide and a Hertaige Softail Classic..
I remember standing in line at a theater with my dad, my racing buddy and his dad to see this movie. I was the ripe old age of 10 years old. OAS has made an indelible mark in the fabric of my life. I'm 62 and still racing motocross. It sounds cliché' but this movie is timeless. Sure, technology, the industry and the sport as a whole has evolved and grown, but the spirit and sentiment of this movie still rings true. Bruce Brown NAILED IT. This movie should be mandatory to watch for everyone on the planet. The world might be a better place.
The best movie ever! I knew I was on a uphill battel when they said Mert was 5' 6 143 lbs. I was 6'2 at 14 years old. I made the best of it by moving to the open class after getting the holeshot only to have all the skinny guys pass me on my 250 CR 250. Once on my 450 Maico, and CR 500 I was home free.
I was 10 years old in 1971 but I never saw this movie until many years later, maybe when I bought it on DVD.. I just started watching here again and the Vibe in the first two Minutes it Totally "Warren Miller" I read Dirt Bike Magazine .. Cycle and Motorcross action ect. I have learned a lot of about many of the racers of this era by watching youtubube..
My girlfriend bought me the dvd because i was always reminiscing about it.❤.turned out to be a french version with dubbed soundtrack.she did her best bless her but it just was,nt right..watched it here and enjoyed every second of this iconic movie.👍😁🇬🇧.Thanks for the post.👍👊😁.
Thanks for uploading this. Steve McQueen was the first person to make me interested in motorcycles, when I was a kid I'd imitate him in The Great Escape with my bicycle in the local golf course. I'm new to motorbiking, but have been having a lot of fun with my road going trail bike, even tho it has spent the past week disabled in my garage as I do major maintenance on it.
Awesome movie. When it first came out, a friend of mine and I went to the theater and watched it back to back at least three times. In 1973 I scored the hi-point trophy for 250 A/E at Perris Raceway. Good times. I still ride a HD FXR with a built S&S 124. Just not on the track. It's in your blood or it's not.
When this came out I was already hanging out with my Dad's buddies in the River Bottoms south of Terre Haute In where the Beer Can National Hare and Hound was held , What GREAT MEMORIES, THANK YOU
This film had such an impact on my mates and I, we lived this dream back when this film came out every weekend hitting trails and paddocks on our bikes , even after school. It was great and the memories live for ever.
Used to watch this as a kid every time i went to my grandparents place since my grandad had it on VCR. I've never been a bike guy but this has always been entertaining evrry time I've watched it.
I’m hitting 70 . Motorcycle all my life. Almost all these guys mentioned I remember. My first bike besides mini bikes was a penton 100 . Second 250 CZ.. then 360. My buddy had the Husky 400.. great memories
Bending that back down seems to be stressing the hell out of other frame tubes. Was waiting for something to pop/give. Can’t believe how soft and flexible all those frame pieces are. 😳
In the late 2000s, I got to ride with Malcolm Smith. He was pushing 70 and still kicking ass. Ripchar Cycle Ranch generated some amazing memories during its too short existence. (and previously the Flying P)
Just a heads-up that the soundtrack to this timeless treasure is available in high resolution on streaming services. Qobuz for instance. If the final song "End Title" doesn't produce a tear, I don't know what will. I'm Fly-ing!
I totally remember seeing this movie as a small kid. I DID NOT want it to end! .... AND, I wanted to be a rock star motor cycle racer. Glad I didn't. I'm finding I'm living longer with less broken bones. 🙂 GREAT movie though!!!
I love your channel,, I owned 2 of the motorcyles you showed, Hodaka asc 100 was my first. then i worked through till i bought a penton 125. Then I bought a suzukt 400 on road/ off road Then I saw my next bike and last bike for sometimes. 777 cyclone., This bike helped me break my RT leg. Keep up the great moves
Gilda Texter is her name, she was Paul Koslow's, the guy who played the young cop, girlfriend and is how she got the part in the movie, she didn't act much after that but went on to have a long career in Hollywood working behind the scenes in movies, last I heard she was still alive. RIP Barry Newman, aka Kowalski, who just passed away this past summer, and Timothy Scott who played the desert biker/"the nude girl on motorcycle's" boyfriend that helped Kowalski get through the one roadblock, aside from being in some iconic movies during his career such as In The Heat of The Night, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and of course Vanishing Point, Scott had the unforgettable role of Pea Eyed Parker in Lonesome Dove and it's sequel Return To Lonesome Dove, his role was portrayed by other actors in other installments of the Lonesome Dove franchise but no one could play it like him, he absolutely owned the part, Scott died in 1995 at just 57 years old, younger than I am now, that's just so hard for me to believe.
@@dukecraig2402Them Bull's Will Hook Ya, Old Man Barlo,Was Hooked, Guss, Old Man Barlo Was A Slow Thinker, Not Unlike Somebody Else I Might Add. Pea, Yeah He Was A Slow Walker After That Bull Hooked Him. Classic !!!
That kid riding the wheelie in the beginning set the tone for the rest of my life. Nearly makes me weep the feelings this movie invokes. Wow. We had a great childhood
Jeff Ward
Yes… I feel for kids today that never leave a computer screen.
Couldn't have said it better myself!
Indeed.
Couldn’t agree more
One of the greatest motorcycle movies of all times! ❤
this and LITTLE FAUSS AND BIG HALSEY,cold beer and nachos
@@strattuner absolutely 💯 %
anything Bruce Brown did eh!
I just got done watching this with my father!!!
I graduated high school in 1971. Raced motocross in southern California. Saddleback Park was in my backyard. Malcolm Smith has always been my hero. I still own MS Racing Gear.
I went to Saddleback many times & remember all these guys. I agree Smith was a MC hero. Where we lived, a riding area called Elephant Hill was the local practice area. I saw & talked to Steve McQueen, who would ride there with his moto buddy Jim West. West later died after a crash at Saddleback. I was only about 12 with either a Maverick mini or a total POS Yamaha 125, but McQueen was intetested & just a regular guy. He talked to all of us kids. They were both crazy gòd on their Huskies.
I was in High School in 1971, racing novice class on a rebuilt Maico square barrel. No other movie in my lifetime had(or has had)a more significant influence on my development/career/life. Seeing this again has refreshed my mind about everything that gave me the impetus for riding/racing/loving motorcycles for the last 45 years. Thank you; Bruce Brown, Steve McQueen, Malcolm, Mert, and all the other featured competitors for a lifetime of heroes on which to reflect.
I was riding my Bultaco 250 Pursang one fine Saturday with my pals in the Canyon riding area of Redlands CA. When Steve McQueen and his pal showed up to ride motorcycles. If I remember correctly they drove up in a 1956 Ford PU.
I had a Maico. Handled like a dream.
Ditto.
Same
Greetings from Germany!@@concernedcitizen780
THIS SPECTACULAR DOCUMENTARY CHANGED MY LIFE AND MY FRIENDS WE RODE SINCE 1967 ! I STILL HAVE THE PASSION EVEN THOUGH I LOST A LEG MARCH 2023 ! YOU CANNOT KILL THE SPIRIT !
Maybe you can find it somewhere.
@@johndemeen5575 Well, he lost his leg. I lost my spirit. They both hurt a lot.
Don't ever give up the spirit! I shattered both my legs on 1-20-01 from stabbing the face of another tabletop jump 140 feet away! Then had such a passion for the greatest sport in the universe that I remounted an 07 KTM 250SX 2 stroke and you can ask Ryan Dungey about our race!
@@johndemeen5575Your attempt at trying to be funny failed.
@@johndemeen5575 You sir are a dick. Damn funny though😅
I started riding motorcycles in 1969 and saw this movie with my dad, my brother and 2 kids from the neighborhood when we were all just teens. We all rode for years, myself and 1 friend still riding to this day. Sadly my dad passed away a couple years after we saw the movie; but I still remember sitting in that theater next to him every time I watch it. It is one of the best memories I have of my father. A special day in a special time of life.
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I watched this in my english class. Teacher gave us slips to excuse us for the next class. We got to see it before it hit theaters. She became my favorite teach after that! She said 1 day wasn't going to cause a catastrophe.
This movie changed my life in 1971 and to this day motorcycling is my favorite activity, bar none.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, we as a species peaked in the 70s
Those were better days for certain!
Absolutely, the best music, the best everything, it's been a long slow downhill ever since with our personal freedoms and liberties eroding the whole way.
People that weren't around in the 70's just don't get how much we've lost since then, they think that just because they get their flag out every 4th of July and wave it around that it's the same America, it isn't.
I'm glad I won't be around too much longer, it really breaks my heart to see what people have given up for a sense of false security.
Got to love the classics.
What a time fun in the sun with no worries..i wanne go back please.
The decades change, the riders change, the bikes change but one thing remains constant: our united love of bikes 🏍
Small community for sure
Unbelievable. I am setting this aside for later viewing when there is plenty of time and maybe a drink ore two. Thank YOU
I could and have watch a 100 times
Damn!!!
I last saw that movie over 50 years ago at a place called a drive in theater!
That was the mystical days of rotary telephone dials!
The days of yore!
Yes, such fond memories of movies such as Mad Dogs & Englishmen (Joe Cocker on tour movie), Billy Jack, Jeremiah Johnson, Trinity (Terence Hill & Bud Spencer), any movie with Robert Redford, Paul Newman, the list goes on. Somehow 'Koolmints' stuck in my mind just as much as the drive-ins did. Happy years they were.
Im 58 still riding this movie was awesome I remember going to see it at Fox theater in Covina cal as a young kid
I've been a lifelong bike fan, thank you for posting this. An hour and a half of reminiscing. Brilliant 😊
Agree you just sent back to 12 yrs old. Saving AND working 2 paper rts and cutting grass for a Suzuki TE 75cc m/c. 😀
@@MADDOG100ful Yep, before the 1986 production rule, (that about tripled the cost of a bike in 5 short years), any kid with a part time job could afford a brand new dirt bike, and we were in just about every rural USA field, with that movie beginning Yamaha GT Mini-enduro 60 as the trail maker that dwarfed the highway commission.
Best motorcycle movie ever! Makes me wanna restore my old 70's Honda.
Do it!
We rode many of these places back then; Saddleback, Indian Dunes, Gorman, and Elephant Hill, where McQueen & Jim West (RIP) were racing each other. They stopped by our gaggle of 12 year olds & asked about our "bikes" Mine was a Maverick pos, & there were various trail 70's, mini 50's, 90's & possibly a Rupp or some other lawn mower thing. They both showed genuine interest. Both were riding their iconic Huskies. So FAST. So glad I grew up in that era.
Great place to live back then
These guys back in the day where real men balls of steel absolutely no fear whatsoever no wheelie control or launch control any of that crap just pure skill and talent
The bikes are better today…yes. The men were better then.
bet you'd find more than a few dented gas tanks on those bikes. not from racing spills or anything like that, but from their giant brass balls clanking on the tank all race long! legends, one and all!
And most of all, we did not need rich parents to buy us kids a bike. We bought them, rode them, worked on them, modified them and found future opportunity, actually building the industry, that no kid can think of today.
@@russellhelms2835men were better in most industries then too
@@stevesmith756agreed! Completely. People had more skills based learning, jobs, and work ethic…In my opinion. Not 100% of the time, but for the greater part of the aging WW2 generation, and technology advancing quickly as well. I grew up in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Those were good years.
I remember watching this in the movie theater when I was 11 y.o. with my dad and 2 brothers. It’s a timeless classic and worth watching many times.
I grew up in a family that had motorcycles. I learned how to ride very young. I also learned how to work on the bike as well as how to work on cars. I’m so glad that I had that influence from my father. I remember thinking that everyone had fathers who taught them the same. Just like a lot of the comments had mentioned, I was eight in seventy one. And I saw this film with my father at the local theater. It had a impact on me. I’m so glad that I found it on UA-cam.
Saw this as a kid in the theater and it gave me the BIKE BUG! Motocross was the best days of my life - like a big family outing.
I was a 13 yo kid riding a yamaha 80 and this song was playing between my ears. I was MERT lol
I first watched this movie at an outdoor theater on Ascension island 1983 I had a DT175 at the time and man it sparked a passion. Surfing and dirt bike latter street riding still hit trails and the road now.
Those first viewing were awesome
I started riding when I was 6 with a clutch bike. My Dad rode, my brothers rode. It's in the blood.
I met Malcolm Smith in 1967 at the Yamaha Shop in Savannah Georgia. He did wheelies and displayed incredible balance. He was very personable.
I've watched this at least 100 times. I've bought it on Beta, then VHS and later DVD. The editing of this movie is what makes it great.
Masterpiece of a film, when men would put their life on the line, not for money, but for thrill and legacy.
Saw this with my brother and his buddies in the movie theater in brunswick GA. I was 9 years old got a new Yamaha 80 wen I was 11. Great time to be a kid!
I saw this when I was 5. Parents wouldn’t let me get a motorcycle, but I had a stingray which, I thought was the next best thing!
That music just makes me so happy and I don’t know why!
I love this movie!
RIP ML
After starting to watch this I now remember going to see this when it came out! - I never was able to get a bike until the mid 80’s, a tame KX80 but I had some cool trails to ride with my nephew and we had such a great time! Now I work and live in China and when I moved here I bought a GW250 - great street bike with just enough to explore lots of really good mountains and countryside roads. This movie set it all in motion!
I was 12 in 1971…other than riding a friend’s mini bike a couple of times and a scooter in Corfu, I didn’t get a motorcycle license until age 50 and didn’t buy a bike until age 54.
64 now and I ride every day.
I got to see this as a kid when it hit the movie screen in the 70s..
I still think about seeing that movie when I was a kid. I'm 60 now and I wish I could see it again
I remember watching this with my dad, been dying to see this again.
My mom took me to see this when it came out.
Inspired me to race.
Still race today, cheers.
I saw this movie when I was 7.....This is the first time I've watched it since...it still holds up
Thank you so much for putting this video up!
As kids we watched this over and over!
we still talk about it 30 years later!!😊
52 years
@@midway27272727 I thought the same, but I know what he meant. I started riding in 74 in Michigan, but I never knew the movie existed for at least another 20 years. :)
This movie sealed the deal for me back in the day.
We grew up in the California Desert. We all rode and talked about on any sunday!!
Bro this is sick glad I could see it when I’m young
It’s a great movie
Great movie. I watch the opening to this movie over and over. Had a few of these motorcycles and rode the peddle bikes on a DIY moto track in a vacant lot. Wish for those times. the good ole days .
I remember all those names and faces and can still hear the announcer and the motors roaring by! How strange...50 years later.grew up watching my brothers race proud of them...Brelsford 87, 7, 1
I saw this in a theater with a group of dirt bike buddies when it first came out . Hands down the best motorcycle movie documentary ever made .
Still one of the very best motorcycle movies.
This was my childhood.....saw the movie 13 times in the movie theater the first year it was out......❤❤
back when this movie came out us lads here in New Zealand went a number of times to see it and laugh we did, we had a number of those early japanese motorcycles. I have this in a box collection which includes Bruce Browns surfing movies. I rode for many years, started in motocross, then enduros and finally trials. I had ridden street bikes back in the 60s, I love speeedway and gave that a shot once. I ended up back on the road riding and touring and my early education taught me how to handle a motorcycle especially on the road where car drivers and some motorcyclists can cause problems. I had a decent big tourer a yamaha Venture which we travelled many miles to rallies> i don,t ride anymore as my reaction time is too slow, never mind seeing these old movies is a time that takes the mind back to those days
I found that when I got my fist street bike after decades of dirt, I did not need good reaction time. I just stay away from all the cars the best I can, and just enjoy the ride. Simple philosophy really. They can't hit me if they are no where near me, and there is no reason for me to push any limits. Good life story you did. :)
The music is great too,love it . Takes me back to the old days of my youth.
The "Modern Motorcycle Era" was just a couple years old and the next 15 years would be to motorcycles as the 15 years from 1955 - 1970 was for cars. Back then I couldn't get enough of this movie and now it all seems so tame except for the flat track... Great memories.
The best dirt bike movie ever made
In Dana Point California there is a statue of Bruce Brown in a swimsuit with his movie camera, honoring him for Endless Summer. A quick search has shown me that Bruce's first motorcycle was a Triumph Cub. I'd pitch in if we could build a statue honoring him for On any Sunday. Perhaps Bruce sitting on or standing next to his Triumph Cub
Just go pop a helmet on the statue lol
This movie inspired Wayne Gardner (1987 500cc road racing champ) to ride motorcycles.
Great movie! Brings back fond memories of riding with Joe Guglielmelli (RIP) and Warren Webb of Walla Walla, WA in the 70's. Joe had no problem keeping up with my TM400 on his Hodaka Super Rat during an MC club desert ride at Wallula junction.
I wasnt born until a year later, but loved motorcycles since the 80's
Growing up in the high desert of SoCal, I remember first seeing this movie at a local drive-in, after the movie ended, while everyone was leaving, it was like they were all lining up for a desert race, engines were racing, the dust was flying everywhere lol! It was crazy... good memories!
I did not see it for at least 2 decades after that. But I remember it was said it was a very "inspiring" bike riding movie. I bet a quite a few at that drive in theater were at their local dealership the next week. :)
I was in Junior High, when this film came out, my father just bought me a Yamaha Mini Endro, a expansion chamber, sold the Yamaha, and got a Bultaco Sherpa 175..what a wonderful time..! I still ride..Harley Street Glide and a Hertaige Softail Classic..
I was blessed growing up in Dist 37 desert racing. amen
Raced district 38. Of course I met and got to race with some district 37 hotshoes.
Thanks for this video! Awesome memories. Jeff Ward on his Honda mini trail wheeling. Then becoming one of the Greats. 💯👍
Man these guys had big balls for sure.
I remember standing in line at a theater with my dad, my racing buddy and his dad to see this movie. I was the ripe old age of 10 years old. OAS has made an indelible mark in the fabric of my life. I'm 62 and still racing motocross. It sounds cliché' but this movie is timeless. Sure, technology, the industry and the sport as a whole has evolved and grown, but the spirit and sentiment of this movie still rings true. Bruce Brown NAILED IT. This movie should be mandatory to watch for everyone on the planet. The world might be a better place.
Great movie probably my all time favorite
Always loved this movie. It feels good.
Saw it in a theatre when 17. Takes me right back. Love it! Thanks!
The best movie ever! I knew I was on a uphill battel when they said Mert was 5' 6 143 lbs. I was 6'2 at 14 years old. I made the best of it by moving to the open class after getting the holeshot only to have all the skinny guys pass me on my 250 CR 250. Once on my 450 Maico, and CR 500 I was home free.
I was 10 years old in 1971 but I never saw this movie until many years later, maybe when I bought it on DVD..
I just started watching here again and the Vibe in the first two Minutes it Totally "Warren Miller"
I read Dirt Bike Magazine .. Cycle and Motorcross action ect. I have learned a lot of about many of the racers of this era by watching youtubube..
so good, love it every time I watch it.
I love the Elsinore coverage! That's awesome!
It’s pretty cool
Set the time machine to 1971 and I'm gone ! !
Me and a Hodaka riding friend saw this movie when it came out. Those were the days.
My girlfriend bought me the dvd because i was always reminiscing about it.❤.turned out to be a french version with dubbed soundtrack.she did her best bless her but it just was,nt right..watched it here and enjoyed every second of this iconic movie.👍😁🇬🇧.Thanks for the post.👍👊😁.
Thanks for uploading this.
Steve McQueen was the first person to make me interested in motorcycles, when I was a kid I'd imitate him in The Great Escape with my bicycle in the local golf course.
I'm new to motorbiking, but have been having a lot of fun with my road going trail bike, even tho it has spent the past week disabled in my garage as I do major maintenance on it.
Those moments and that tear evoking music just bring it all back. Simple heart filled fun from a time where the simple things brought a big smile!
That music at the start is great
Awesome movie. When it first came out, a friend of mine and I went to the theater and watched it back to back at least three times. In 1973 I scored the hi-point trophy for 250 A/E at Perris Raceway. Good times. I still ride a HD FXR with a built S&S 124. Just not on the track. It's in your blood or it's not.
Always been in my blood
Wow, San Francisco was once a city...
PS- thanks for posting
When this came out I was already hanging out with my Dad's buddies in the River Bottoms south of Terre Haute In where the Beer Can National Hare and Hound was held , What GREAT MEMORIES, THANK YOU
This film had such an impact on my mates and I, we lived this dream back when this film came out every weekend hitting trails and paddocks on our bikes , even after school. It was great and the memories live for ever.
"A motorcycle is easy to ride except the first time you try your next-door neighbor who probably doesn't know himself is giving you the hot tips!" 😁
Used to watch this as a kid every time i went to my grandparents place since my grandad had it on VCR. I've never been a bike guy but this has always been entertaining evrry time I've watched it.
I’m hitting 70 . Motorcycle all my life. Almost all these guys mentioned I remember. My first bike besides mini bikes was a penton 100 . Second 250 CZ.. then 360. My buddy had the Husky 400.. great memories
Great times my dad is 90 and taught a bunch to race d37
I remember my father showing this to me when I was young. It definitely inspired to get into riding/bmx
Best movie ever
The movie that made Malcolm Smith famous.
I love this movie one of my favorites thanks for sharing. I actually have all 3 on a dvd
The year I started riding at age 5. 🥳🥰
The Best. Back when America was still a great country.
Bending that back down seems to be stressing the hell out of other frame tubes. Was waiting for something to pop/give. Can’t believe how soft and flexible all those frame pieces are. 😳
In the late 2000s, I got to ride with Malcolm Smith. He was pushing 70 and still kicking ass.
Ripchar Cycle Ranch generated some amazing memories during its too short existence. (and previously the Flying P)
Brother my dream is to just meet malcolm smith in my lifetime. Ensenada here i come!
The "Murietta Pig Farmer" mentioned in the Lake Elsinore Grand Prix segment was a Realtor named John Reidy, I worked at his pig farm one summer.
I rode that bike for 6 years. I miss it. Mine was burgandy .
Just a heads-up that the soundtrack to this timeless treasure is available in high resolution on streaming services. Qobuz for instance. If the final song "End Title" doesn't produce a tear, I don't know what will. I'm Fly-ing!
Wonderful movie. Just pure and real
I totally remember seeing this movie as a small kid. I DID NOT want it to end! .... AND, I wanted to be a rock star motor cycle racer. Glad I didn't. I'm finding I'm living longer with less broken bones. 🙂 GREAT movie though!!!
I worked with Keith Mashburn 9:49. He was my first Fire Captain. Great guy and mentor.
Sorry you and Keith did not find any free enterprise opportunity (freedom), with bikes and ended up working for the state. It was there.
I love your channel,, I owned 2 of the motorcyles you showed, Hodaka asc 100 was my first. then i worked through till i bought a penton 125. Then I bought a suzukt 400 on road/ off road Then I saw my next bike and last bike for sometimes. 777 cyclone., This bike helped me break my RT leg. Keep up the great moves
Went to see this movie at ten years old. If that old!
It has been 50 plus years since that time.
Glad I am not young after living those great days. Poor kids don't know the difference.
This was before my time but seeing what's going on in the world now life was better before the internet
I remember the girl on the bike in the film Vanishing Point, oh yeah!
I think the women of the 60’s & 70’s were much more attractive than this group nowadays!
Gilda Texter is her name, she was Paul Koslow's, the guy who played the young cop, girlfriend and is how she got the part in the movie, she didn't act much after that but went on to have a long career in Hollywood working behind the scenes in movies, last I heard she was still alive.
RIP Barry Newman, aka Kowalski, who just passed away this past summer, and Timothy Scott who played the desert biker/"the nude girl on motorcycle's" boyfriend that helped Kowalski get through the one roadblock, aside from being in some iconic movies during his career such as In The Heat of The Night, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and of course Vanishing Point, Scott had the unforgettable role of Pea Eyed Parker in Lonesome Dove and it's sequel Return To Lonesome Dove, his role was portrayed by other actors in other installments of the Lonesome Dove franchise but no one could play it like him, he absolutely owned the part, Scott died in 1995 at just 57 years old, younger than I am now, that's just so hard for me to believe.
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Guss, Old Man Barlo Was A Slow Thinker, Not Unlike Somebody Else I Might Add. Pea, Yeah He Was A Slow Walker After That Bull Hooked Him. Classic !!!
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Definite classic
She was the angel of life. St.Paul,Minnesota.
John McCowan and Kookie the wonder dog!
I remember !!!
Era of man
This is a classic seen it when it came out and a100 time's since